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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Help to use NAWK command Post 302482292 by sbhuvana20 on Tuesday 21st of December 2010 07:45:51 AM
Old 12-21-2010
Help to use NAWK command
Hi,

I am using NAWK command to scan a file (test.txt) and to create new files based on the length of lines in the file test.txt.

My requirement is I need to create test_good with records having line lenght less than 4
and to create test_bad with records having line lenght more than 4. I am able to acheive this by the below command
Code:
nawk '{\
if (length>4)
print > "test_bad"
else
print > "test_good"
}' test.txt

Now I want to make this more generic, by passing lenght as variable. But below command does not work and gives an error. Can someone help me please
Code:
line_length=4
nawk '{\
if (length>${line_length})
print > "test_bad"
else
print > "test_good"
}' test.txt

Last edited by Franklin52; 12-21-2010 at 08:53 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags, thank you
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

mac-vendor

MAC-VENDOR(5)							File Formats Manual						     MAC-VENDOR(5)

NAME

       mac-vendor - Ethernet vendor file for arp-scan

SYNOPSIS

       mac-vendor.txt

DESCRIPTION

       The  mac-vendor.txt  contains Ethernet MAC to vendor string mappings for arp-scan.  It is used in addition to the IEEE OUI and IAB listings
       in ieee-oui.txt and ieee-iab.txt.  It is for MAC-vendor mappings that are not covered by the IEEE manufacturer listings.

       Each line in the mac-vendor.txt file contains a MAC-vendor mapping in the form:

       <MAC-Prefix><TAB><Vendor>

       Where <MAC-Prefix> is the prefix of the MAC address in hex, and <Vendor> is the name of the vendor.  The prefix can be of any  length  from
       two  hex  digits  (one octet) to twelve hex digits (six octets, the entire Ethernet hardware address).  The alphabetic hex characters [A-F]
       must be entered in upper case.

       For example:
       012345	 would match 01:23:45:xx:xx:xx, where xx represents any value;
       0123456	 would match 01:23:45:6x:xx:xx; and
       01234567  would match 01:23:45:67:xx:xx.

       Blank lines and lines beginning with "#" are ignored.

       The order of entries in the file is not important.  arp-scan will attempt to match larger prefixes before trying to match smaller ones, and
       will stop at the first match.

FILES

       /usr/local/share/arp-scan/mac-vendor.txt

EXAMPLE

       # From nmap Debian bug report #369681 dated 31 May 2006
       525400  QEMU
       B0C420  Bochs

       # From RFC 2338: 00-00-5E-00-01-{VRID}
       00005E0001      VRRP (last octet is VRID)

       # Microsoft WLBS (Windows NT Load Balancing Service)
       # http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/acs/reskit/acrkappb.mspx
       02BF    Microsoft WLBS (last four octets are IP address)

AUTHOR

       Roy Hills <Roy.Hills@nta-monitor.com>

SEE ALSO

       arp-scan(1)

       get-oui(1)

       get-iab(1)

       arp-fingerprint(1)

       http://www.nta-monitor.com/wiki/ The arp-scan wiki page.

								  March 30, 2007						     MAC-VENDOR(5)
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